Welcome to Single Leg Parlay

What it is, who it is, and why.

Hi!
Welcome to Single Leg Parlay. We’re a group of five middle-aged dads who love discussing all sports, but particularly college football and NFL. You’ll probably see occasional mentions of other various sports including soccer, baseball, basketball, Aussie Rules football, golf, and tennis.

What is Single Leg Parlay?

Well officially, we’re a podcast. We’re about to begin our third season recording weekly podcasts during the football season where we discuss the hottest topics of the week and give out our favorite bets. We typically record a college football episode and an NFL episode, sometimes adding a third if the situation arises. For instance, the Summer Olympics are kicking off with the opening ceremony tomorrow.

You may be saying “You’re a podcast? Then why am I reading words instead of hearing them?” and the answer is we’re attempting to formalize this thing a little bit, creating a home base where listeners can come and access recordings, read about topics that we maybe didn’t have time for on the pod, or see content about sports that don’t make sense to address within a 30-60 minute long recording. It also provides us an opportunity to better display our hit rates and track our plays so you don’t have to scan through a recording for a specific person’s picks.

It’s also a lot easier to interact with our listeners via a website than a one-way recording. We’d love it if you listened to every episode, start to finish, rated, reviewed, and subscribed (so please do that on your favorite podcasting platform), but we’re also trying to make things a little easier and more interactive for our listeners by creating this site.

So who is Single Leg Parlay?

As I mentioned at the top, SLP is five dads: Andy, Matt, Danny, Chris, and Al (that’s me).

We’ve all been friends for probably nearing two decades now? Some more, some less? I don’t know, I don’t want to count. The point is it’s been a long time! We’ve been in a fantasy football league for pretty much that entire time and a few years ago decided instead of texting each other all of our funny jokes and ingenious observations, that we should start getting together over essentially a zoom call, drink some beers and have a chat. And thus, the podcast was born.

To give you an idea of who does the heavy lifting around here, this is how last season’s bets shook out:

Andy: NCAAF - 149-137-3 (52.09%), NFL - 85-56 (60.28%)

Al: NCAAF - 87-88-1 (49.7%), NFL - 101-65 (60.84%)

Chris: NCAAF - 35-34-1 (50.7%), NFL - 18-20 (47.37%)

Danny: NCAAF - 55-51-2 (51.88%), NFL - 38-37 (50.67%)

Matt: NCAAF - 84-65-2 (56.38%), NFL - 49-35 (58.33%)

TOTAL: NCAAF - 410-375-9 (52.23%), NFL - 291-213 (57.74%)

If you tailed every pick we made last season, you’d have made 51.81 units betting NFL and you’d have lost 1.9 units betting NCAAF. For a $25 unit bettor, you’d have netted $1,247.75 just for following our plays and listening to a fun podcast. It’s like you’re getting paid to have a fun time!

So come along for the ride. It should be a fun year.